I didn’t like potty humor as a child, so I get to live it as an adult. We don’t get through one meal without the subject coming up. My nephew’s classic line to anything is when someone asks what happened during any story, my nephew will says they fart, without fail. They laughed at that and then he went back to reading something with his dad. There is a scene where they show how they made toilets and the niece called in the nephew and he thought that picture was funny. It took me and the niece 2 nights to finish this. My nephew figured out within pages this was like the book Cathedral and he bailed on it. This is more like a non-fiction work and it’s a lot of story, so more mature or older readers will appreciate it more. The artwork and detailed drawings are amazing. They were really so smart in how they made these structures. This is similar in that we get to see how the castle was planned and constructed. David also wrote the book Cathedral and we read that book already. Five of these titles have been made into popular PBS television programs. From the pyramids of Egypt to the skyscrapers of New York City, the human race’s great architectural and engineering accomplishments have been demystified through Macaulay's elaborate show-and-tells. Following in this tradition, Macaulay created other books-including City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Unbuilding, and Mosque-that have provided the explanations of the how and the why in a way that is both accessible and entertaining. He published his first book, Cathedral, in 1973. After working as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and a teacher at RISD, Macaulay began to experiment with creating books. After spending his fifth year at RISD in Rome on the European Honors Program, he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and vowed never to practice. During this time he began to draw seriously, and after graduating from high school he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He found himself having to adjust from an idyllic English childhood to life in a fast paced American city.
David Macaulay, born in 1946, was eleven when his parents moved from England to Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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